West Virginia officials tangled in federal appointments fight
Washington rumors swirl over delays in sending the names of H Roy Waugh Frank Tyree and James Doyle to the Senate for district attorney and US marshal posts in West Virginia. Charles Elliott seeks Northern district marshal renewal while Blizzard and others face opposition. Governor Glasscock reshapes the adjutant general’s office as Burlew resigns.
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Charleston
H. Roy Waugh
Frank H. Tyree
James KE. Doyle
Senate
West Virginia
United States
Land Fraud Trial to Consume Weeks in Idaho Case
Boise Idaho Dec 27 two hundred fifty witnesses summoned to testify in government case against James T Barber and Sumner G Moon of Barber Lumber Co Eau Claire Wisconsin. Trial expected five or six weeks with conspiracy to defraud the government in Idaho timber land deals alleged. Moon and Barber allegedly recruited 210 men to file on land to sell to Barber Co. More than 30000 acres of timber land said to be fraudulently obtained.
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Boise
Idaho
James T. Barber
Sumner G. Moon
Robert S. Bean
Messrs. Barber and Moon
Eau Claire
Wisconsin
Barber Lumber Company
Ik. Palmer
Canada
Barber and Moon
Sig
Barber Company
125th Anniversary of the Founding of the Methodist Episcopal Church
In Philadelphia at Old St. George's church a historic 125th anniversary celebration of the Methodist Episcopal church founding in the United States was held tonight. Governors of Pennsylvania New Jersey and Delaware were invited as guests. Bishops Ross Wilson Berry and other church leaders spoke.
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Philadelphia
St. George's Church
America
Methodist Episcopal Church
United States
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Delaware
Ross
Wilson
Berry
Fourth international sanitary convention opens in San Jose
San Jose Costa Rica December 27 The fourth international sanitary convention of American republics begins its sessions with a U S delegation led by Surgeon General Walter Wyman and officials from the public health and marine hospital service Dr. N H Bracken secretary of Minnesota state health board attends.
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San Jose
Costa Rica
United States
Walter Wyman
Public Health and Marine Hospital Service
N. H. Bracken
State Board of Health of
Minnesota
Murder of Sam Baker and Wife Sparks Lynching Rumors
Sam Baker and his wife were shot dead at their Hurley home in Buchanan County by John Pennington. A mob hanged Pennington near the Kenwucks line after his capture. The double murder follows tensions tied to the Howard Little case.
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Tazewell
Sam Haker
Hurley
Buchanan County
John Pennington
Ritter Lumber Company
Pennington
Baker
Penningon
Howard Little
Becty Justis
Little
Bekirs
Penningen
Buchenan
Ponningetoy
Murder on Christmas Eve Shocks Devon WV Town
A Christmas Eve shooting near the church in Devon Virginia unfolds as Frank Pennington ambushes Sam Baker his wife and two children killing Baker. The suspect is captured after locals pursue him with Squire Johnson leading the posse. The case links to the Howard Little murder and a related lynching.
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Devon
W. Va
Hurley
Howard Little
Frank Pennington
Sam Baker
Santa Claus
Baker
Nin T
Pennington
Mrs Baker
Betty Justis
Squire Johnson
Mob lynches Pennington after grave exposure and gunfire
Report details a mob in a Buchanan County area seizing Pennington from a boarding house and hanging him from an engine house after torture and gunfire. The mob claimed it aimed to prevent a new trial for Howard Little and threatened further violence against Little and Baker’s family. Pennington’s body was left all night and buried Sunday amid a large turnout. Baker’s wife, wounded in earlier events, did not attend.
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Grundy
Howard Little
Pennington
Little
Baker
Lebanon
Litte
Betty Justis
Marine disasters unequalled in years toll from New England storm
New York reports the probable loss of the five masted schooner Davis Palmer with twelve crewmen off Boston Harbor. Wreckage and nine other vessels along the Massachusetts coast mark a storm toll unseen in years. Cape Cod remains cut off awaiting recovered communications.
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New York
Davis Palmer
Boston Harbor
Amu
Massachusetts
New England
San- Iay
Cape Cod
Boson Harbor
Rock Island Stock Flurry Triggers NYSE Probe
The NYSE board appoints a three member committee F L Kamer J Atterbury and Ernest Grosbeck to investigate a morning Rock Island common stock jump of about thirty points amid rumors of matched orders. Judge Moore and Daniel G Reid deny knowledge of the market disruption.
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New York
New York Stock Exchange
Rock Island Common
F. L. Kamer
J. Atterbury
Ernest Grosbeck
Moore
Daniel G. Reid
Rock Island
Saidey
Boy's Ghastly Find Stuns Pittsburg Detectives
Pittsburg detectives hunt for the killer of James Lawrence Friel a four year old found dead in an abandoned northside house. He had been missing since December 13 and was discovered yesterday by a local child. The corpse was partially nude with a knife wound to the throat. Police call it one of the area’s most fiendish crimes in years.
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Pittsburg
James Lawrence Friel
Young Friel
Landstaff
Vaughan Tunnel
Clinchfield Coal Corporation
Dante
Demosthenes
Lee Finley
Finley
Herbert Gase
St. Paul
It¢Is
Gose
Justifiable Homicide Report From Cordele Ga
A shooting in Cordele Georgia results in the death of Starling’s wife and the assailant Joe Smith surrenders. A jury returns a verdict of justifiable homicide in the case involving Smith and Starling.
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Cordele
West Star Ing
Joe Smith
Starling
Smith
Lynchings Averted. Judge Jailed After Real Estate Murder
Greenville South Carolina December 27 Judge Jesse Fuller charged with murder of J Liddell a prominent real estate dealer was rushed to Columbia penitentiary as authorities narrowly averted a lynching scene.
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Greenville
Jesse Fuller
Columb U Penitentiary
Christmas toll in Coal Field riddled with violence
The Clinch Valley region faced Christmas deaths from train accidents and murders. In Hurley Virginia a recent murder and lynching followed the Little family killings. Across Pocahontas Flat Top and Dante, alcohol fueled crashes, shootings, and ambushes injured or killed multiple men, with rail workers and locals affected and several suspects jailed.
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Virginia
Pocahontas Flat Top
Clinch Valley
Daily Telegraph
Zelaya defends his treatment of Americans in interview
former President Jose Santos Zelaya said Secretary Knox’s stance toward him was biased by misrepresentations of Nicaragua. He described the action against Americans Cannon and Grose as justified and announced plans to travel to Mexico City for six months, thanking President Diaz for hospitality.
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Salina Cruz
Mexico
Knox
Nicaragua
Jose Santos Zelaya
Cannon
Grose
Zelaya
General Guerrero
Brinsmaid Named WVU Mining Engineering Professor
Professor Robert Brinsmaid, from St. Louis and formerly with Plattsville School of Mines and Kansas State University, selected by the state board of regents to succeed Dr. Henry Mace Payne as WVU mining engineering professor.
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Charleston
W. Va
Robert Bruce Brinsmaid
State Boarch of Regents
West Virginia University
Henry Mace Payne
Brinsmaid
St. Louis
Plattsville School of Mines
Kanis State University
Blizzard Grips Philadelphia Business And Transit
Philadelphia endures a historic blizzard as central business and transit grind to a halt. In Indiana, five train men die and two are fatally hurt in a collision on the Baltimore Southwestern line near Fort Ritner, twenty miles west of Seymour.
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Philadelphia
Baltimore
Ohio
Seymour
Ind
Baltin
Southwestern
Fort Ritner
One Dead and Anthea May Die of Injuries Over Whiskey Fight
A fatal Morris Creek brawl near Montgomery leaves John W. McClain dead and Dorse Cobb badly injured amid a whiskey dispute. Detectives arrest Paul and Jesse Rucker and others. several suspects held for grand jury as jail intake rises.
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Anthea
Charleston
W. Va
John W. McClain
Dorse Cobb
Morris Creek
Montgomery
Cobb
Melain
Crescent
Howard Smith
Paul
Jesse Rucker
Tom Lawson
Charles
James Gwinn
Willie Coni
MD. Coni
Pete Kishel
Justic-of-the-Peace
B. Crawford
Cabin Creek
Felix Kiasendusher
Kiasendusher
General Strike Looms In Rail Labor Upheaval
In St Paul on December 27 President Frank T. Hawley of the switchmen union announced after talks with leaders of railway departments that heads will depart for headquarters to plan a general strike if demands are not met. I. B. Perham said settlement seemed near Friday but the railroads then changed position and grew arrogant, prompting a halt to talks. He may appeal to the Interstate Commerce Commission or address President Taft directly.
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Waugh
G. Pierson
Fayette County
Tigree
Glasscock
State Capitol
N. S. Burlew
Burlew
Adjvant
Pratt
Military Department
St. Paul
Min
Frank T. Hawley
Switchmen’s Union
American Federation of Labor
It. B. Perham
Railroad Councils
Carnegie Injured Sipping Ice in Central Park
Andrew Carnegie, strolling near the Central Park reservoir, injured his left knee and missed a dinner at his home planned for Governor Hughes and others. The event, arranged weeks earlier, was to honor Governor Hughes and included President Taft who could not attend due to the storm.
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New York
Andrew Carnegie
Central Park
Hughes
Carnegie
Taft
Taft Cancels New York Dinner Over Storm Traffic
President Taft stays home due to stormy traffic, abandoning plans for a dinner in New York with Andrew Carnegie and a talk before the American Historical Association.
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Washington
Taft
New York
Andrew Carnegie
American Historical Association
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